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Diffstat (limited to 'generic/tclUtil.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | generic/tclUtil.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/generic/tclUtil.c b/generic/tclUtil.c index 2a0d51a..d065069 100644 --- a/generic/tclUtil.c +++ b/generic/tclUtil.c @@ -944,10 +944,6 @@ TclScanElement( int preferEscape = 0; /* Use preferences to track whether to use */ int preferBrace = 0; /* CONVERT_MASK mode. */ int braceCount = 0; /* Count of all braces '{' '}' seen. */ - - if ((*src == '#') && !(*flagPtr & TCL_DONT_QUOTE_HASH)) { - preferBrace = 1; - } #endif if ((p == NULL) || (length == 0) || ((*p == '\0') && (length == -1))) { @@ -956,6 +952,23 @@ TclScanElement( return 2; } +#if COMPAT + /* + * We have an established history in TclConvertElement() when quoting + * because of a leading hash character to force what would be the + * CONVERT_MASK mode into the CONVERT_BRACE mode. That is, we format + * the element #{a"b} like this: + * {#{a"b}} + * and not like this: + * \#{a\"b} + * This is inconsistent with [list x{a"b}], but we will not change that now. + * Set that preference here so that we compute a tight size requirement. + */ + if ((*src == '#') && !(*flagPtr & TCL_DONT_QUOTE_HASH)) { + preferBrace = 1; + } +#endif + if ((*p == '{') || (*p == '"')) { /* * Must escape or protect so leading character of value is not |